It’s a Spiritual Law

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. —Romans 3:27

The Word declares that we are saved by grace through faith—not of ourselves; “it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). Salvation was a free gift, but it had to be received through faith. Faith is a spiritual law. When put into operation, it will manifest the things freely given to you through the Cross into your life. Faith is a spiritual law! It will work when it is put to work. Gravity is a natural law. It is a law that is in operation all the time. If you jump off the top of a ten-story building, the law of gravity will work. You can claim that it is not working, you can believe that it is not working, but if you jump, you will soonfind out that it is working! Just because you do not believe in gravity does not stop it from working. People say they have “tried” faith. They say this faith stuff does not work. But faith is a spiritual law, and it works all the time. Just like the law of faith brought you salvation by grace, it will also bring all the other promises into your life! Whether you feel like it is working, whether you see it working or not, it is working! Do not change your confession because you do not see instant results. Do not use faith just to try to receive something material from God. The just shall live by faith. Think, live, and talk faith all day, every day, and you will see results. The law of faith is in operation for you today!

Pastor Tom Kehres

Miracle-Grow

Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. —Acts 6:8

Stephen was a man, a deacon in the church, but something separated him from the other Christians. He was full of faith and power. Because Stephen was full of faith, we can determine that Stephen was full of the Word, because “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17 nkjv). The results of him being full of faith were that he did—notice, not God did, but he did—great wonders and miracles among the people. Why did he do wonders and miracles? Because God chose him to do them? Because God decided to use him in wonders and miracles? Because Stephen was specially called by God? No! Because he was full of faith and power! Every born-again believer has “the measure of faith” (Romans 12:3). Every believer has the opportunity to allow their measure to grow and increase. You decide how much Word you hear and how much Word you act on. The same spiritual position of being full of faith is available to you. You, too, can be a person full of faith and power. You, too, can be a person who does great wonders and miracles among the people. There is a need for miracles in the world today. Sickness, disease, fear, and demons are running loose. God needs people full of faith and power like never before in the earth today. Will you be a Stephen? Will you be full of faith and power? Will you do great wonders and miracles?

Pastor Tom Kehres

Pleasing God

But without faith it is impossible to please [God]. —Hebrews 11:6

You can go to church to please God, pray to please Him, and give money to charity to please Him, but without faith, it is impossible to please God. If faith is the way to please God, then it is essential to study and live by faith so that we may be God-pleasers. When God gave you the measure of faith (Romans 12:3), He gave you the ability to please Him. As you hear the Word and study the Word and act on the Word, your faith will grow. As your faith grows, your ability to please God will grow with it. Once again, you will determine how much you please God by how much you develop your faith. Faith is pleasing to God because it is pleasing to God for you to live a victorious lifestyle. The freer you become through faith, the more God is pleased with your life. You are His child, the love of His life. He desires that you live on top, full of joy, full of faith. Faith is “the victory that overcomes the world” (1 John 5:4, emphasis added). God desires that you live as a world-overcomer. The more faith you have, the greater the victory you have, and the more pleasing to God you become. If faith is pleasing to God, then doubt, worry, and fear would be displeasing to God. Faith is having God’s Word in your heart and in your mouth. Fear and doubt is having something other than God’s Word in your heart and in your mouth. Am I walking by faith? Am I pleasing to God today? Just check what is coming out of your mouth, and you will know if you are in faith or in fear. Your words will tell on you if you have been hearing the wrong things. I will walk by faith! I will hear the Word! I will live in victory! I am pleasing to God!

Pastor Tom Kehres

Desire the Word!

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. —1 Peter 2:2

When you were born again, you became a spiritual baby in the things of God. Peter compares a born-again Christian to a human baby. The human baby is helpless. He cannot feed himself, change himself, or care for himself. He just cries when he is hungry so that someone will bring him a bottle of milk. Without milk, the child will never grow or be nourished and strong. Can you imagine a nineteen-year-old crying and screaming because he needs a bottle of milk? Doesn’t that sound ridiculous? Yet we have Christians all over the world who have been born again for many years, and they are still spiritual babies in the things of God. They have never desired or received the spiritual nourishment they need to grow thereby. They expect someone else to feed them and to change them when they get in a mess. The only thing they are lacking is the sincere milk of the Word. The Word is your spiritual food, your spiritual vitamins. As you hear and study the Word, the Spirit of God will take it and make it alive in your life. You will grow thereby to a place of sonship and maturity in God. Soon you will taste and see that the Lord (or the Word) is gracious (1 Peter 2:3). The Word will start to get in your mouth and will dispel the things that do not belong in your mouth. Words of doubt will leave, words of worry will go, and praise and thanksgiving will take their place. What is happening? You are growing thereby. Desire the Word! Read it even when you do not desire it. You will still grow thereby.

Pastor Tom Kehres